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Pentecostal History Pentecostal History By Tim Naab Psalms 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. Isaiah 8:16-20 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. "The loud speaker or singer believes that his self-induced hypnotic trance is *enthusiasm and he believes that this means that god is within. He doesn't know that Philo coined this word to describe those afflicted, as in Corinth, with enthus o mania - just momentary insanity. Philo "developed a doctrine of ecstasy or ek-stasis, which means standing outside oneself.' This is the highest form of piety which lies beyond faith. This mysticism unites prophetic ecstasy with *'enthusiasm', a word which comes from en-theos-mania, meaning to possess the divine. From this there comes finally the fully developed mystical system of the Neo-Platonists, for example, of Dionysus the Areopagite. In this mystical system the ecstasy of the individual person leads to a union with the One, with the Absolute, with God." (Tillich, Paul, A History of Christian Thought, Touchstone, p.3). "As to the nature of *enthusiasm, it is, undoubtedly a disorder of the mind; and such a disorder as greatly hinders the exercise of reason. Nay, sometimes it wholly sets it aside: it not only dims but shuts the eyes of the understanding. It may, therefore, well be accounted a species of madness." John Wesley (Sermon #37 point 11 "The Nature of Enthusiasm") * Enthusiasm: another term for Charismatic Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1 Chapter 9 ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF PIETY SUBVERTED BY FANATICS, WHO SUBSTITUTE REVELATIONS FOR SCRIPTURE. The Reformation emphasizes Salvation by Grace alone through Faith alone. Council of Trent (Counter Reformation) by the Roman Catholic Church produces Jesuits, one by the name of Manuel Lacunza who promotes Millenarianism to counter the eschatology of the Reformation's view of the Pope as the anti-christ. (perspective on the Council of Trent) Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses to the Wittenburg Cathedral door at 1517 Worms, Germany 1500s 1519 Swiss Ulrich Zwingli spreads reform in Zurich 1522 Luther translates the New Testament into German 1525 The Anabaptist Movement begins 1534 Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII establishes the Anglican Church 1536 John Calvin publishes his Institutes of the Christian Religion 1540 Loyola founds Society of Jesus (Jesuits); evangelize heathens 1545 The Counter-Reformation initiated by the Council of Trent 1560 John Knox returns to Scotland to establish Presbyterianism Puritanism in 17th Century England and its transplantation to America with its emphasis on adherence to the Bible and the right to dissent from the established church. 1603 Dutch Reformed theologian Arminius emphasizes free will John Smyth, an Anglican bishop, is credited with starting the Baptist movement in Holland after fleeing persecution in England. At his death the Baptist movement ceased in Holland but the majority of Baptists 1610 there returned to England. During this same time the Particular Baptists (Calvinistic) began to grow in England and both began to spread to the USA. 1600s 1611 King James Version of Bible published 1618 Dutch Reformed Synod of Dort (TULIP) rejects Arminianism 1636 Harvard College founded to provide New World with ministers Westminster Confession becomes the definitive Reformed standard for 1646 centuries, drafted in London 1647 George Fox founds Quaker movement (the Society of Friends) 1648 End 30 Years’ War between Catholics/Protestants 1652 Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa founded Pietism in 17th Century Germany, led by Philipp Jakob Spener and the Moravians, which emphasized the spiritual life of the individual, coupled with a responsibility to live an upright life. Quietism, as taught by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), with its emphasis on the individual’s ability to experience God and understand God’s will for oneself. 1700 Slave trafficking from Africa increases dramatically 1706 First American presbytery founded in Philadelphia by Francis Makemie 1729 US Presbyterians adopt Westminster Confession John and Charles Wesley have evangelical conversions, eventually 1700s 1738 founding Methodism 1740 The Great Awakening is at its height in America 1741 Presbyterians split Old Side/New Side; reunite 1758 1773 First independent Black Baptist Church in US 1780 Robert Raikes launches Sunday School Movement 1793 William Carey sails for India launching modern Protestant missions Many American churches, beginning with the Baptists, begin divisions 1795 over slavery Influenced By Moravians; The 1730s Evangelical Revival in England, led by Methodists John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley, which brought Wesley's distinct take on the teachings of German Pietism to England and eventually to the United States. To Wesley, sanctification is grace led spiritual growth. Christian perfection, according to Wesley, is “Instantly I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions” and “the mind which was in Christ, enabling us to walk as Christ walked.” It is “loving God with all our heart, and our neighbor as ourselves” (A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, 1.2). It is “a restoration not only to the favour, but likewise to the image of God,” our “being filled with the fullness of God” (The End of Christ’s 1700s Coming, 3.5 pg 482). Imparted righteousness, in Methodist theology, is that gracious gift of God given at the moment of the new birth which enables a Christian disciple to strive for holiness and sanctification. John Wesley believed that imparted righteousness worked in tandem with imputed righteousness. Imputed righteousness is the righteousness of Jesus credited to the Christian, enabling the Christian to be justified; imparted righteousness is what God does in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit after justification, working in the Christian to enable and empower the process of sanctification (and, in Wesleyan thought, Christian perfection). The "Holiness Movement" was an exaggeration of Wesley teachings and Pentecostalism is Wesley taken to extreme. Links to Methodist Churches. (Methodism and the Negro in the United States:) First Great Awakening begins (Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen arrives in 1720 New Jersey) 1726 Gilbert Tennent adopts Frelinghuysen's emphasis on experience 1734 Jonathan Edwards joins the Great Awakening 1740 George Whitefield arrives; Great Awakening spreads The first Baptist church in Georgia was comprised of those who worshiped on Saturday. The Tuckaseeking Baptist Church (Effingham County) existed only from 1759 to about 1763, when persecution forced its members out of Georgia. No other Seventh-Day Baptist congregation was gathered in Georgia until 1938. Since then, 2 small congregations have struggled for life, 1 of which is extinct. In 1759 1998, the remaining church, located in Paulding County, contained 36 members. Recently it has organized a mission in DeKalb County. Both are affiliated with the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference founded in 1802 and headquartered in Janesville, Wisconsin, a national body sponsoring missionary, educational, and benevolent ministries. The Brethren in Christ Church; origin was near the present town of Marietta in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. For the most part, our founding mothers and fathers had an Anabaptist background and were deeply affected by the revivals 1775-1778 of the great awakening of the eighteenth century and the Pietistic movement, which was spread in America by the Moravians and German Baptists. These revivals emphasized a personal, heart-felt conversion experience. The first all-Black congregation in the province was the First African Baptist Church of Savannah. However, most African-American Georgia Baptists prior to 1777 the Civil War were slaves forced to hold membership in white-dominated churches. Arminian Baptists had an organized presence in Georgia in 1791 when the Hebron Baptist Church (Elbert County) was founded. Two other Arminian 1791 churches soon followed in Columbia and Hancock counties, the South Carolina- Georgia General Baptist Association existed briefly, and the whole enterprise in that part of the state disappeared about 1797 Zoar United Methodist Church, Philadelphia, was founded in 1794 by eighteen free African-Americans, fifteen men and three women. The founders had separated themselves from the white-dominated St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church but chose to remain in Methodism with its traditions of early 1794 opposition to slavery, evangelical style of preaching, and ministering to social needs. The early members first worshipped from house to house, then met in an abandoned butcher shop at Brown and Fourth Streets in the Campingtown area of Philadelphia. Originally known as African Zoar, a church was constructed near the site and dedicated on August 4, 1796 by Bishop Francis Asbury. The first black Methodist church, the African Union Church, was incorporated 1807 in Wilmington DE. Manuel Lacunza publishes "La venida del Mesías en gloria y majestad, 1811 observaciones de Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra" A defense against Reformed Eschatology. The beginning of Dispensationalism The First Great Awakening in the 18th and early 19th Centuries in the United 1800s States, propagated by George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, and others, with (early) its emphasis on the initial conversion experience of Christians The African Methodist Episcopal Church is founded in Philadelphia PA. 1816 CENTENNIAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE African Methodist Episcopal Church 1821 The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is founded.
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